Re:The Doc Sayz (Score 1)

I have no wish to turn this in to a slagging match, but the Doc is right. I am a new user to Linux and not to put too fine a point on it, it is a bugger to use and no mistake - This is simply because there is little cohesive documentation, I am not saying that what is there is not good, I am merely stating that the information is not quite novice friendly. Also, the reason why Linux CURRENTLY is not good for the desktop is the problem with hardware support and drivers. However the various GUIs' avaliable are very good especially KDE (if I can only banish all of the alpha codes and other programes of no use to me). So, as far as I see things Linux has great potential as a desktop OS, but it requires some refinement, but this is not to say that the systems coming with Linux peinstalled are not excellent desktop machines in their own right. What I am simply stating from my point of view is that without drivers optimised for the hardware that I use I am not quite happy with Linux - that or I am running alpha codes. So, the way that Linux can succeed as a desktop for 'the great unwashed masses' is greater hardware support, a fully graphical installation front-end (this is not quite here as the one I used had some bugs in it (SuSE 6.3)), and immediate booting into desktop. Also administration should be made easier, or at least provide a dumbed-down version - a frnt-end hic gives the user prompts an the system itself does the work, switching form user to root then after the task is done dropping back down to user.